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Brand equity
Sharia vs non-sharia compliant:
which gives much higher
financial-based brand equity to
the companies listed in the 2167
Abstract
Purpose – The study aims to examine the difference of financial-based brand equity of Sharia-compliant
and non-Sharia-compliant companies listed in the stock market.
Design/methodology/approach – The five-year data were collected from 561 companies listed in the
Indonesian stock market (349 Sharia-compliant firms and 212 non-Sharia-compliant firms).
Findings – Based on five years of observations, the study shows that Sharia-compliant companies have
much higher brand equity than companies that are not Sharia-compliant. However, the study did not find
consistent results when the study examined the differences between brand equity in newly listed Sharia-
compliant firms in the short run (two-quarters of the observations). In other words, Sharia-compliant status
positively impacted a company’s brand equity only in the long run.
Research limitations/implications – The study examines only the brand equity of Sharia- and non-
Sharia-compliant companies in the Indonesian stock market.
Practical implications – The study suggests that companies should list their equity in the Islamic stock
market as the empirical evidence shows that the companies listed in the Sharia index have much higher brand
equity than companies listed in the non-Sharia index, although this impact can only be seen in the long run.
Originality/value – The study integrates finance and marketing perspectives, which are often
disconnected in daily business. In addition, the study provides a piece of empirical evidence on the effect of
financial decision to be listed in the Islamic stock market on the establishment of brand equity, which
represents the long-term intangible assets of the firm in the eyes of the customers.
Keywords Stock market, Islamic marketing, Sharia, Financial-based brand equity
Paper type Research paper
© Sri Rahayu Hijrah Hati, Muhammad Budi Prasetyo and Nur Dhani Hendranastiti. Published by
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licences/by/4.0/legalcode Journal of Islamic Marketing
Vol. 14 No. 9, 2023
This work was supported by the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education, Research pp. 2167-2187
and Technology through Penelitian Dasar Unggulan Perguruan Tinggi (PDUPT) scheme Grant Emerald Publishing Limited
1759-0833
Number: NKB-054/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2021. DOI 10.1108/JIMA-08-2021-0251
JIMA Introduction
14,9 To be listed or not listed on a stock market is one of the strategic financial decisions that
many firms should decide (Baker and Johnson, 1990; Carbone et al., 2021; Corwin and Harris,
2001; Ding et al., 2010; Helbing, 2019; Meluzín et al., 2018). Previous studies have
investigated the impact of stock market listing on the financial benefits for public companies
(Baker and Johnson, 1990; Dambra et al., 2021; Schoubben and Van Hulle, 2011), such as
2168 lower cost of equity capital, liquidity improvement (Baker and Johnson, 1990; Dambra et al.,
2021) and easier access to debt financing (Fan, 2019; Schoubben and Van Hulle, 2011).
Unfortunately, there is a dearth of research that examines the relationship of stock market
listings on any other business function, especially the marketing performance (Karniouchina
et al., 2009; Ma et al., 2019; Mizik and Jacobson, 2007; Setty et al., 2010; Simon and Sullivan,
1993).
Despite being born from the same mother discipline (economics), marketing and finance
have long lived in two different worlds of thought (Zinkhan and Verbrugge, 2000). While
marketing scholars tend to focus on establishing the scientific status of marketing using
consumer/product and primary data, finance scholars tend to focus on attaining firm
objectives using secondary data at the firm level (Hyman and Mathur, 2005). Academic
scholars then realized that both fields could not be completely separated as there is a mutual
relationship between marketing and finance to enhance the firm’s economic value (Hyman
and Mathur, 2005; Porto and Foxall, 2019). Therefore, the Journal of Business Research
launched a special issue on the marketing and finance interface in 2000 (Hyman and Mathur,
2005). The Journal of Marketing followed suit by issuing a special issue on the same topic in
2004 (Edeling et al., 2020). The Marketing Science Institute/EMI funded several research
projects in 2006 that were later published in a special section of the Journal of Marketing in
2009 (Edeling et al., 2020). The academic articles discussing the interface between marketing
and finance surged from 42 to 226 articles in 2009 (Edeling et al., 2020). Despite the growth,
Porto and Foxall (2019) argued that the marketing and finance scholars need to examine the
impact of marketing investment on financial consequences and vice versa.
In the Islamic business and management field, there is also a dearth of research that
discusses the interface between marketing and finance. The existing studies primarily used
primary data at the individual or consumer level in the context of Islamic bank, e.g. banking
behavior of the Islamic bank customers (Metawa and Almossawi, 1998); strategic marketing
of Islamic bank (Naser and Moutinho, 1997); marketing of Islamic banking products
(Kamarulzaman and Madun, 2013); mortgages (Tameme and Asutay, 2012); awareness/
loyalty to the Islamic banking (Islam and Rahman, 2017; Wu et al., 2019); consumer
migration to the Islamic bank (Hati et al., 2020a); investment intention in the Islamic bank
(Hati et al., 2020b). The studies that discuss the interface between marketing and finance at
the firm level are minimal. Among the studies is Hussein (2010), which examined bank-level
stability factors and consumer confidence of both Islamic and conventional banks. However,
almost none of the Islamic business and management studies discusses the interface of
marketing and finance at the company level in the non-bank sector.
To fill the gap the current study investigates the marketing and finance interface at the
company level in non-financial sectors. Specifically, the study aims to examine the
companies’ impact of positioning themselves as Sharia-compliant companies (SCCs) in the
capital market on the increase of brand equity.
Why does the study focus more on the capital market, specifically the Islamic stock
market? The Islamic capital market is the place where buyers and sellers engage in the trade
of financial securities like bonds and stocks with the assertion of Shariah principles, which
are free from any elements or activities prohibited in Islam (Dusuki and Abozaid, 2008). It
has a promising future as it is in high demand from investors (Al-Khazali et al., 2014; Brand equity
Climent et al., 2020; Shankar, 2020). The investors of Sharia-compliant financial products are
not only Muslims but also non-Muslims who are ethically conscious (Biancone and
Shakhatreh, 2015). In response to the high demand, the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index
(DJIMI) was launched in Manama, Bahrain, in 1999 (Siddiqui, 2007). The inclusion of
companies in the Sharia index positively influences the demand for the company’s stock in
the capital market. Investors perceived the Sharia stocks as having a lower risk than their
competitors (Jaballah et al., 2018). In addition, a previous study found that the stocks listed
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in the Islamic index tend to outperform their conventional peers during the global financial
crisis (Al-Khazali et al., 2014).
Why does the current study investigate the impact of stock market listing on firms’
brand equity? According to Fornell et al. (2006), one fundamental rationale for scholars to
examine the finance and marketing interface is to measure the degree to which markets
function well. In addition, on the capital side, companies’ investment decisions must be
driven by long-term criteria rather than short-term cash flows (Edeling et al., 2020).
Therefore, companies need investment performance metrics that are proven to create long-
term value for them. In marketing, one of the concepts used to measure the firm value is
brand equity (Simon and Sullivan, 1993). Brand equity is an intangible asset for firms
(Chatzipanagiotou et al., 2016; Damodaran, 2007; Kapareliotis and Panopoulos, 2010).
According to Aaker (2012), brand equity refers to the set of assets and liabilities linked to a
brand, its name and symbols that add to or subtract from the value provided by a product or
service to a firm and to the firm’s customers. The higher the brand equity, the better the
price, market share and profits obtained by the company. However, de Oliveira et al. (2015)
stated that professionals and academics still face challenges in measuring brand equity.
Brand equity is a concept that has been defined and measured differently by marketing
scholars (Gill and Dawra, 2010; Keller, 1998). De Oliveira et al. (2015) divided brand equity
measurements into consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) and financial-based brand equity
(FBBE). CBBE is a measure of brand equity that emphasizes the consumer’s perspective on
a brand. The higher the consumer’s perception of a brand, the higher the brand equity. The
main weakness of CBBE is that it cannot represent the monetary value of brand equity.
Therefore, Simon and Sullivan (1993) used information from the stock market and the
company’s financial statements to measure brand equity. The FBBE is more objective than
CBBE because it integrates all aspects of brand equity. Unfortunately, only a few studies
have examined brand equity from a financial-based perspective (Tasci, 2020).
As mentioned earlier, the current study aims to examine the impact of a company joining
the Sharia index on its brand equity. The study asks whether consumers respond positively
to the company that joins the Sharia index by examining the increase in sales and
profitability in the long run, as reflected in its financial report. The study applied the FBBE
developed by Simon and Sullivan (1993) to integrate various dimensions of brand equity to
answer the questions. The study was conducted in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in
the world, with around 87% or 228.2 million Muslim adherents in 2020. The study is
expected to contribute not only to the field of finance but also to the field of marketing as it
examined the interface between both areas. Integrating finance and marketing is important
as marketing researchers have mainly looked to scholars in psychology and sociology for
inspiration rather than its sister discipline, finance (Zinkhan and Verbrugge, 2000). The
study linked finance and marketing perspectives, which are often disconnected in daily
business (Fischer and Himme, 2017). As the research related to halal and Sharia branding in
Islamic marketing and Islamic research is still in its infancy, examining the role of branding
across the discipline is very important (Wilson and Hollensen, 2010; Wilson and Liu, 2010).
JIMA Integrating marketing research with finance, which was born from the same mother
14,9 discipline (economics), would enable the marketing scholars to apply more economic
principles to solve business problems (Zinkhan and Verbrugge, 2000) and to enhance a
firm’s financial health (Fischer and Himme, 2017).
Literature review
2170 Sharia securities list
Profit loss sharing is applied in the current stock market operation. Profit–loss sharing
through contractual agreement is a concept applied by the Islamic financial or Sharia-
compliant institutions to comply with the religious prohibition on interest on loans to which
most Muslims subscribe (Majdoub et al., 2016; Mirakhor and Zaidi, 2009). In other words, the
investors are bound to the portion of the profit and also to the portion of the liability in a loss
if that occurs (Abdul-Rahman and Gholami, 2020; Khan, 1987). Unfortunately, Muslim
scholars and practitioners still found several non-shariah compliant issues in the
conventional stock market (Alam et al., 2017; Majdoub et al., 2016).
To ensure the Sharia compliance of the company listed in the Islamic stock market, the
companies should pass the screening norms (Alam et al., 2017; Hashim et al., 2017; Hassan
et al., 2020). The Sharia compliance of the company listed on the Islamic stock market can be
assessed through the company’s general business activity and financial operations (Hashim
et al., 2017). In terms of business activities, the company’s main business should be
permissible from the Sharia perspective. A company is deemed as not following Sharia
principles if its main business is against Sharia principles. A company is considered as non-
Sharia compliant if its primary activities are in the following line of business: manufacturing
and sale of alcohol; gambling, gaming and casino operations; conventional interest-based
finance including insurance; pornography; sale and production of pork-related products and
non-halal meat; and other non-permissible activities (including non-Sharia compliant
entertainment) (Alam et al., 2017; Izberk-Bilgin and Nakata, 2016). In practice, many
different types of business are considered non-Sharia-compliant in some countries. The
Dow–Jones Islamic Market includes tobacco, weapons and defense as a list of businesses
that are against Sharia (S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Index Committee, 2021). The Dow–Jones
Islamic Market also set a threshold of 33% cap for the investment in non-permissible
activity, which lacks strong religious theoretical grounding (Elnahas et al., 2020).
Meanwhile, MSCI Global Islamic Indices added music, hotels and entertainment, and adult
entertainment as businesses that were not in accordance with Sharia (Hussin et al., 2015).
In financial screening, the scholars look at the structure of the company’s financial
statements to assess Sharia’s suitability (Alahouel and Loukil, 2020; Aloui et al., 2021). This
is done because modern companies usually have assets and liabilities in financial
instruments, which may conflict with Sharia. Many companies have income that comes
from various sources, not only from the company’s main business but also from other
sources. These sources of income may or may not be in accordance with Sharia principles.
Apart from sources of income, companies can interact with various prohibitions in Sharia
principles (riba, gharar and maysir) through various transactions such as funding through
debt instruments containing interest (riba) or speculative transactions in financial markets
that contain a lot of uncertainty (gharar). Therefore, assessing a company’s conformity to
Sharia principles from its main business is not sufficient. All company activities and
transactions should be evaluated (Hashim et al., 2017).
The previous studies show that companies that pass the two aforementioned screenings
have relatively low risk and are more resistant to shocks in the financial system (Alahouel
and Loukil, 2020; Febrian et al., 2013). From a business perspective, an SCC does not have a
negative effect on the environment, society or civilization as a whole, while something that Brand equity
God prohibits usually has a negative impact on the environment, humans and the world as a
whole (Zakir Hossain, 2009).
Brand equity
Brand equity is a valuable business asset that consists of brand loyalty, brand awareness,
brand association and perceived quality (Aaker, 1991). Brand equity also reflects the 2171
differential effect of brand knowledge on consumer response to the brand’s marketing
(Keller, 1993). In other words, Aaker’s (2009) definition of brand equity focuses more on
recognition, whereas Keller focuses primarily on emotions (Keller vs Aaker customer based
brand equity models, 2021). Based on Aaker’s (1991) definition, brand equity represents the
added value of a product. The greater the added value in a product, the stronger the brand’s
position will be in the eyes of consumers (Winter, 1991). Previous studies showed some
advantages for having strong brands, including high customer loyalty, high customer
satisfaction, less vulnerability to competitive marketing actions, larger margins, more
inelastic consumer response and several other advantages in the long run (Ajour El Zein
et al., 2020; Gonzalez-Mansilla et al., 2019; Narteh, 2018; Pappu and Quester, 2006; Taylor
et al., 2004).
While Aaker (1991) and Keller (1993) defined brand equity from the customers’
perspectives, Simon and Sullivan (1993) defined it from the firm’s perspective. Simon and
Sullivan (1993) described brand equity as incremental cash flows, which accrue to branded
products over and above the cash flow, of selling unbranded products. Simon and Sullivan’s
definition of brand equity is closely related to Aaker’s (1991) definition. Incremental cash
flow from a product will be more significant when the company can increase the added
value of its products. Incremental cash flow will be obtained from high margins, high
loyalty, large market share and relatively inelastic customer responses. On the other hand,
companies create added value in a product by managing the various costs efficiently (Simon
and Sullivan, 1993).
Although there are links between two different levels of brand equity definitions, the
different definitions lead to different methods of measuring brand equity. De Oliveira et al.
(2015) divided the measurement of brand equity into two groups: CBBE and FBBE. CBBE
measures brand equity based on consumer perceptions of the company’s products.
Therefore, CBBE measurements are usually carried out using primary data through
surveys. Meanwhile, FBBE measures brand equity based on available financial information,
information derived from financial reports and information obtained from the stock market.
According to Simon and Sullivan (1993), the fundamental weakness of CBBE is that brand
equity based on consumer perceptions has no monetary value, so it is difficult to measure its
impact on the company’s financial performance. Brand equity can be measured based on
consumers’ perceptual or financial focus (de Oliveira et al., 2015; Tasci, 2020). Estimating
brand valuation from financial data is useful for mergers, acquisitions and divestiture
decisions (Keller, 1993). For example, the decision of the company to acquire a brand can be
conducted by comparing the acquisition price with the fixed assets (Keller, 1993).
Islamic capital market and brand equity. Previous studies showed a positive relationship
between brand equity and customer satisfaction (Gonzalez-Mansilla et al., 2019; Pappu and
Quester, 2006). Customer satisfaction itself can be linked to the financial performance as
shown in the company’s accounting data (Golovkova et al., 2019), such as operating margin
or return on investment (Anderson et al., 2004). Even though accounting measures may
provide valuable insight to the company, the data cannot replace the long-term financial
performance, as measured by data from capital markets (Anderson et al., 2004). Therefore,
JIMA examining the link between capital market and marketing data will be very useful for the
14,9 company as it highlights the long-term financial performance and the marketing function
performance. The examination also enhances the strength between marketing and the
financial function because marketing has a primary task to develop and manage the market-
based assets of the firm through customers, channels and partner relationships that increase
shareholder and firm value by accelerating and enhancing cash flows, reducing cashflow
2172 volatility and vulnerability and growing cash flow residual value (Srivastava et al., 1998).
The shareholder and firm value in a capital market can be assessed through tangible and
intangible assets (Simon and Sullivan, 1993). Therefore, the capital market capitalizes the
brand equity from the profit that reflects the association between the brand’s name and the
company’s product and services (Simon and Sullivan, 1993).
Recently, more companies have become SCCs because of the increase of Islamic Index
providers and the high captive market of Muslim investors (Wardhani, 2019). In Muslim
countries, including Indonesia – the country with the largest Muslim population in the
world, investors have a positive perception of Sharia compliance because of religious beliefs
(Jaballah et al., 2018). By contrast, in a non-Muslim majority country like the USA, investors
react negatively because they have negative perceptions of Islam and of the restrictions
associated with Sharia compliance (Jaballah et al., 2018). To date, there have been almost no
studies that compare the performance of the SCCs and non-SCCs in the stock market and
their association with brand equity. The current research examines the impact of a company
joining the Sharia index on the company’s brand equity.
According to Simon and Sullivan (1993), companies with high brand equity probably
have higher profit capitalization due to the high sales of products the company offers. Based
on this logic, if a company that joins the Sharia index is not accompanied by an increase in
its brand equity, it is likely caused by two issues. First, consumers do not consider Sharia-
compliant status to be important. Second, information about the status of the company
included in the Sharia index is not known by the public, so it has no impact on the
company’s brand equity. To answer the research problem, the study applies the FBBE
developed by Simon and Sullivan (1993) to integrate various dimensions of brand equity.
Based on the above arguments, the following hypothesis is developed:
Ha. Sharia-compliant companies have significantly higher brand equity than the non-Sharia-
compliant companies.
Research methods
Data and samples
The study used the past five years of data from companies listed on the Indonesia Stock
Exchange (IDX). In total, 561 were potential to be used for the sample. Still, only 349 of them
were listed on the list of Sharia securities as the remaining 212 companies were non-Sharia-
compliant firms. The companies in the financial sector were not included in the sample as
their business practice does not comply with Sharia principles. Besides, the nature of
financial reports is different from that of non-financial companies.
IDX and the Financial Services Authority (OJK) have implemented two screening
methods (business and financial screening) to select companies that are included in the
Indonesia Sharia Stock Index (ISSI). However, the financial screening used by IDX and OJK
is slightly different from the detailed screening used by DJIMI, AAOIFI and other Sharia
indexes in several countries. IDX and OJK use two ratios in conducting the financial
screening. First, the ratio of interest-based debt to total assets is a maximum of 45%.
Second, the ratio of total interest income and other non-halal income compared to total Brand equity
business income and other income is a maximum of 10%.
IDX and OJK conduct screening twice a year, in May and November. In both months,
IDX and OJK published a list of companies that are constituents of the ISSI. To compare
brand equity before and after companies are listed in Sharia, the study only used companies
listed in the Sharia stock index that did not exit the index for five years (2014–2018).
Companies that entered, left and re-entered the Sharia stock index were not included in the
sample.
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The study used financial statement data for public companies in Indonesia. The study
took the data from Bloomberg. In addition, the study also used stock market data (share
price and the number of shares outstanding) obtained from Datastream.
V * ¼ VT þ VI (1)
V* is the company’s market value, VT is the value of tangible assets and the value of VI is
the value of intangible assets. For a public company, V* is the sum of the market value of
the common stock, the market value of the preferred stock and the market value of the
company’s debt. Meanwhile, VT is the replacement value of the company’s tangible assets,
which can be defined as the current cost of purchasing an asset of equivalent productive
ability. Equation (1) above can be changed to V1 = V* VT. Intangible asset V1 consists of
three components as follows:
The Vb1 component is a factor that increases the brand’s perceived quality due to
advertising activities carried out by the company. Successful advertising will increase the
price premium of the company’s product relative to its competitors’ products in the market.
Meanwhile, Vb2 is the marketing costs the company has managed to save from the
economies of scale that it has achieved.
Empirically, Vb1 can be estimated by looking at the effect of advertising expenses
incurred by the company in the current period and the previous period. Meanwhile, Vb2 has
a more complicated empirical definition considering the many marketing activities of
companies that have an influence on brand awareness. Following Boulding and Staelin
(1990), Vb2 can be explained empirically by looking at the effect of advertising costs relative
to the firm’s market share. Meanwhile, Vnb, which represents the intangible value of the non-
brand factor, can be obtained from the company’s R&D activities (R&D costs), the relative
R&D costs compared to other companies in the industry, the relative patents value held by
the company and the conditions of industry competition.
The combination formulation of brand- and non-brand factors related to market share
can be seen in the following equation:
To separate market share derived from brand and non-brand factors, the regression analysis
was performed:
where b^1 is the regression coefficient, and ui is the residual of the regression.
In equation (2), there is a Vind component, an external (industry) factor that affects the
value of the company’s intangible assets. Based on the industrial organization literature,
price setting and strategy development policies are strongly influenced by the industry’s
market structure. Industries with a highly concentrated market (monopoly) allow companies
to have high market power and get maximum profit. Therefore, the study used the
concentration ratio (CR4) as a proxy for market structure. Thus, the empirical model of the Brand equity
firm’s intangible asset value is as follows:
where CR4 is the four-firm concentration ratio, adv is the company’s advertising costs
(current and past expenditure), age is the company’s age. To estimate equation (10), the
variables were normalized by dividing all the dependent and independent variables by the 2175
company’s replacement cost. If equation (10) has been estimated, the company’s brand
equity can be calculated using the structural equation as follows:
^ 2 advi þ b
^v bi ¼ b ^ 3 agei þ b
^ 4 E ðSb2i Þ (11)
Equations (7) to (11) are cross-section regression estimated by the ordinary least squares
(OLS) method. Equations (7) to (11) are estimated periodically to examine the dynamics of
brand equity value. It is also relevant with the next part of this study, which will observe the
difference of brand equity before and after being included in the Sharia index.
companies in the USA, which reached an average of 3.6% in 1993. The low portion of
advertising costs to firm value in companies in Indonesia also occurs in SCCs and non-SCCs.
Table 1 also shows the facts related to the company’s R&D activities. The average R&D
costs incurred by companies is 0.006% for all sample companies, 0.007% for SCCs and
0.006% for non-SCCs. The low R&D costs incurred show that the level of invention and
product innovation in Indonesia is still very low, especially when compared to companies in
developed countries.
Regarding the value of the firm’s intangible assets, the low R&D costs that the company
incurs indirectly indicate the low contribution of the company’s R&D activities to the value
of the intangible assets. Therefore, the study modifies the approach used by Simon and
Sullivan (1993) by removing the R&D costs from equations (2) to (11). Due to the low R&D
costs of public companies in Indonesia, Table 2 shows the estimation results of equation (7)
based on periodical cross-sectional regression from Q1 2014–Q2 2018.
Equation (7) is modified by eliminating the rndshr variable (relative R&D costs) and the
patents variable (relative patents value). Thus, equation (7) becomes simpler using only one
independent variable called relative advertising expense (adshr). The estimation results
shown in Table 2 show that advertising expense has a relatively significant positive effect
on the company’s market share throughout the estimated period. The result shows that the
marketing activities carried out by companies in Indonesia are proven to significantly
increase their market share in their respective industries. In addition, when viewed from the
perspective of the goodness of fit, the estimation results for each period have relatively high
R2 and adjusted R2, which are between 0.570 and 0.658. These findings are in line with the
study results by Simon and Sullivan (1993), which concluded that marketing or advertising
activities carried out by companies have a positive impact on sales, thereby increasing the
company’s market share.
The estimation results shown in Table (2) were used to estimate the expected market share
as a result of marketing activities (E (Sb2)) so that equation (10) can be estimated. Table 3
shows the results of the estimation of equation (10).
Measure Q1-2014 Q2-2014 Q3–2014 Q4-2014 Q1-2015 Q2-2015
Intercept 0.0007 (2.0447) 0.0008 (2.2001) 0.001 (2.5593) 0.0011 (2.7973) 0.001 (3.2014) 0.001 (2.8704)
asdhr 0.1229 (25.313) 0.1158 (22.99) 0.1063 (19.844) 0.1115 20.323 0.0965 (22.343) 0.1052 (21.659)
R2 0.658 0.623 0.564 0.570 0.596 0.591
Adjusted R2 0.657 0.622 0.562 0.569 0.595 0.590
F-stat 640.735 528.551 393.377 413.035 499.231 469.123
Q3-2015 Q4-2015 Q1-2016 Q2-2016 Q3-2016 Q4-2016
Intercept 0.0006 (1.5729) 0.0009 (2.7663) 0.0007 (2.1561) 0.0006 (1.9806) 0.0006 (2.0072) 0.0006 (2.2074)
asdhr 0.1154 (18.837) 0.1033 (23.245) 0.1061 (21.499) 0.1097 (21.282) 0.1036 (21.681) 0.1193 (24.438)
R2 0.513 0.630 0.57 0.57 0.574 0.632
Adjusted R2 0.511 0.629 0.569 0.569 0.573 0.631
F-stat 354.817 540.349 461.939 452.939 470.06 597.202
Q1-2017 Q2-2017 Q3-2017 Q4-2017 Q1-2018 Q2-2018
Intercept 0.0006 (2.1621) 0.0007 (2.1855) 0.0008 2.7606 0.0008 (2.8634) 0.0008 (2.6451) 0.0007 (2.228)
asdhr 0.1091 (23.543) 0.1104 (22.604) 0.1062 (21.989) 0.1209 (25.585) 0.1086 (21.721) 0.1083 (21.404)
R2 0.612 0.601 0.574 0.657 0.57 0.587
Adjusted R2 0.61 0.6 0.573 0.656 0.569 0.585
F-stat 554.288 510.927 479.145 654.602 471.789 458.137
Regression model
Table 2.
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Brand equity
JIMA Equation (10) uses the intangible asset value as the dependent variable. CR4 is replaced with
14,9 the Herfindahl Hirschman Index (HHI) variable as a proxy for market structure based on a
measure of market concentration. CR4 is a simple measure of market concentration because
it only uses the data of four companies with the largest market share. Meanwhile, HHI is a
more precise measure because it uses market share data for all companies in the industry. In
addition, the study uses advertising costs incurred by companies in the current period and
2178 advertising costs in the previous period as independent variables. The R2 and adjusted R2
indicators from the estimation results of equation (10) (Table 3) are lower than equation (7)
(Table 2). The R2 in Table 3 ranges from 0.047 to 0.101. The result indicates that the ability
of the independent variables to explain the value of the company’s intangible assets is
relatively low. The value of the company’s intangible assets is not sufficient only to be
explained by the company’s current and previous marketing activities, market share, age
and level of competition in the industry. The coefficient of each independent variable has a
different sign and level of significance for each estimation period. For example, the
advertising expense variable had a negative but insignificant impact in Q4 2014. In Q2 2015,
this variable had a positive and statistically significant effect. The result shows that the
effects of company activities on the value of the company’s intangible assets depends on
other factors, such as the company’s internal and external dynamics that occur in each
period. However, like Simon and Sullivan (1993), the regression coefficient in Table 3 can
still be used to estimate the brand equity of each company. Figure 1 shows the estimation
results of brand equity based on the regression coefficients in Table 3. It presents the
average brand equity calculated from the companies’ brand equity in each industry.
Based on Figure 1, the consumer goods industry (food, beverage, pharmaceuticals and
several other businesses) has the highest brand equity compared to other industries. The trade,
service and investment industries also have higher brand equity than other industries. Various
industries have the lowest brand equity during 2017–2018. Figure 1 shows that brand equity is
very much influenced by industry characteristics. Two industries, namely (i) consumer goods
and (ii) trade, services, and investment, are industries that have a business-to-customer (B2C)
characteristics in which companies have products that are consumed almost every day by
individual consumers. In addition, companies classified in the consumer goods sector actively
carry out marketing activities to inform their products and engage with their customers
through various media. The result supports the findings of Simon and Sullivan (1993), which
found that B2C industries such as food products, tobacco, apparel and printing and publishing
have the highest brand equity compared to other industries.
Aside from dividing the companies based on their sector, this study also classified them
into SCCs and non-SCCs (Figure 2). With the existence of business and financial screening,
several large companies with high profits, such as cigarette companies and conventional
banks, were not included in the list of SCCs due to their non-Sharia compliance.
To examine the significant difference between the brand equity of Sharia- and non-
Sharia-compliant firms, the t-test was applied (Table 4). The results of the different tests
indicate that there is a significant difference between the average brand equity for Sharia-
and non-Sharia-compliant firms. Therefore, the research hypothesis, which tested the
difference of brand equity between the Sharia- and non-sharia-compliant, is supported. The
study shows that the market responds positively to the company’s Sharia-compliant status,
especially if the company has a sound business and financial performance.
In addition, the study also examines brand equity in industries that are more sensitive to
halal and non-halal issues. The halal status of the consumer goods sector (e.g. food and
beverage products, medicines, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals) is more critical to the public/
consumers than other industries. Therefore, the study examines the average difference in
Measure Q1-2014 Q2-2014 Q3-2014 Q4-2014 Q1-2015 Q2-2015
Intercept 0.4955 (2.747) 0.454 (3.099) 0.6141 (4.002) 0.4769 (3.385) 0.4726 (3.52) 0.4434 (3.164)
E(Sb2) 17.138 (1.477) 10.6679 (1.096) 0.7378 (0.069) 5.4099 (0.554) 6.7559 (0.67) 0.5425 (0.056)
adv 6.0418 (1.542) 11.4221 (1.67) 0.1413 (0.121) -1.4488 (1.064) 18.794 (5.334) 5.6072 (2.174)
adv(1) 2.9574 (0.702) 0.1561 (0.023) 14.7749 (4.93) 14.2597 (5.173) -1.5176 (1.182) 9.7739 (2.321)
HHI 0.9565 (1.272) 0.7829 (1.323) -1.2726 (1.917) 0.3693 (0.604) 0.6587 (1.127) 0.5526 (0.944)
Age 0.0045 (0.909) 0.0028 (0.706) 0.0023 (0.575) 0.0013 (0.347) 0.0019 (0.53) 0.0011 (0.289)
R2 0.050 0.077 0.097 0.096 0.101 0.097
Adjusted R2 0.036 0.062 0.082 0.081 0.087 0.083
F-stat 3.464 5.279 6.462 6.516 7.476 6.852
Q3-2015 Q4-2015 Q1-2016 Q2-2016 Q3-2016 Q4-2016
Intercept 0.4003 (2.947) 0.4156 (2.803) 0.415 (3.012) 0.4278 (2.999) 0.374 (2.728) 0.4704 (3.338)
E(Sb2) 7.2492 (0.676) 7.0131 (0.658) 4.7062 (0.441) 4.217 (0.389) 1.7053 (0.153) 3.6959 (0.356)
adv 1.0055 (0.658) 3.6549 (3.311) 2.0949 (1.138) 3.079 (1.224) 25.2653 (2.7) 5.0266 (1.8)
adv(1) 10.5637 (4.37) 0.7597 (0.533) 3.2999 (3.027) 6.9136 (1.946) -13.7863 (1.602) 4.221 (1.141)
HHI 0.0569 (0.099) 0.1088 (0.157) 0.1217 (0.197) 0.1875 (0.303) 0.2781 (0.46) 0.176 (0.279)
Age 0.0006 (0.17) 0.0001 (0.029) 0 (0.004) 0.0006 (0.161) 0.0022 (0.618) 0.001 (0.26)
R2 0.070 0.047 0.051 0.058 0.074 0.055
Adjusted R2 0.056 0.032 0.037 0.044 0.060 0.041
F-stat 4.979 3.114 3.688 4.166 5.479 3.993
Q1-2017 Q2-2017 Q3-2017 Q4-2017 Q1-2018 Q2-2018
Intercept 0.4651 (3.111) 0.4936 (3.227) 0.6713 (4.261) 0.7671 (4.762) 0.8874 (5.268) 0.6967 (4.146)
E(Sb2) 3.2824 (0.3) 7.5201 (0.693) 0.0906 (0.008) 3.7352 (0.347) -7.8123 (0.629) 4.5936 (0.395)
adv 1.4101 (0.487) 15.4775 (1.484) 6.5923 (1.117) 0.2535 (0.128) 18.3015 (1.987) 33.9562 (2.36)
adv(1) 8.7321 (2.924) -8.393 (0.762) 5.1643 (0.806) 9.7915 (3.227) -6.8185 (0.823) 24.2318 (1.604)
HHI 0.2544 (0.386) 0.3181 (0.503) 0.7547 (1.092) -1.29 (1.769) -1.0706 (1.39) 0.7843 (1.069)
Age 0.0006 (0.168) 0.0007 (0.183) 0.0027 (0.66) 0.0043 (1.051) 0.0056 (1.331) 0.0034 (0.839)
R2 0.061 0.050 0.065 0.061 0.060 0.077
Adjusted R2 0.047 0.036 0.052 0.047 0.047 0.062
F-stat 4.519 3.530 4.900 4.399 4.506 5.296
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Figure 1.
Average of brand
equity based on
industry
Figure 2.
Average of brand
equity of SCC and
non-SCCs
brand equity between various industries and the consumer goods industry. The results of
the different tests are shown in Table 5.
The results in Table 5 show that the average brand equity in the consumer goods
industry is consistently higher than the average brand equity in other industries. Several
things may cause this. First, the consumer goods industry products are consumed directly Brand equity
by individual consumers and are closely related to their daily needs. Therefore, the market
size of the consumer goods industry is very large. If the company is able to build a good
product image, the company will get strong brand equity. Second, the level of competition in
this market is higher than in other industries. Thus, companies in the consumer goods
industry are more active in conducting marketing efforts to deliver their products to
consumers. Third, consumers in the consumer goods industry are very sensitive to the halal
issues of the products (food, beverages and pharmaceuticals).
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Furthermore, the study looks specifically at the change in brand equity from a previously
non-Sharia to an SCC. Therefore, the study filtered companies that changed status from non-
Sharia- to Sharia-compliant during the Q1 2014 to Q2 2018 period. The study only included
SCCs that did not drop off the list of SCCs during the same period. Of the 349 companies on
the Sharia securities list, only 44 companies entered and remained in Sharia securities
during the Q1 2014 to Q2 2018. The study identified brand equity of 44 companies before
and after joining the list of SCCs. If the company was announced as an SCC in May 2016, the
brand equity being compared would be brand equity in Q1 2016 and Q2 2016. The
researchers use the mean difference test to test for differences in brand equity before and
after companies have Sharia-compliant firm status.
Table 6 shows the results of the average difference test between brand equity before and
after the company obtained the status as a Sharia-compliant firm.
The different test results in Table 5 show that the average brand equity before and after
the entry of a company into a Sharia-compliant firm is not significant. Before the company’s
announced entry, the average brand equity was 0.516, and the average brand equity was
0.521. The t-test shows no significant difference in the average brand equity before and after
the company gets the status as a Sharia-compliant firm. The result further indicates that the
changes in brand equity could not be seen in the short run, e.g. within the first two quarters
only or right after the company was listed on the Sharia index. The changes in brand equity
are more significant in the long run or after five years, as seen from the hypothesis testing,
which examined five years of data observation (Table 4).
Corresponding author
Sri Rahayu Hijrah Hati can be contacted at: sri.rahayu72@ui.ac.id
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